Improvement in harvester-cutters



UNITED STATES PATENT GEEICE.

Euros DUTToN, oF YoNKEEs, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARVESTER-CUTTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 157,588, dated December 8, 1874,' application filed March 9, 1874.

To all whom fit may concern.:

Be it known that I, RUEUs DUTTON, of the city of Yonkers, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fingers and Finger-Bars for Harvesting-Machines, of which thereon7 and making a part of this specilica-` tion;

Figure l is a plan view, showing afsection of the Enger-bar. Fig. 2 is a vert-ical section of the same.

Fig. 1, A is a portion of the tubular fingerbar. vB is what I terni a back-rest or brace,

and maybe made either of wood or metal, as best suited to the machine on which the bar is to be used; (Lthe ngers. On the front side of the tubular bar I form a groove, d, Fig. 2, and suited to which I make projections b b b b on the flanges of the ngers, Fig-.1. These projections, when placed in the groove el, hold the iin gers in line on the front side of the bar. The Shanks a a extend around the barA and back onto the brace B, and are bolted firmly together by the bolt of This bolt, together with the groove d in front ot' the tubular bar, and the projections i) b b I) on the fingers, hold the tubularV bar and brace rmly together. By the use of the tube A I secure a stift' and light bar to support the plat-` form and Weight resting upon it between the driving and grain Wheels of the machine, and by the brace B I support the bar against lateral strain. f

By the shank of the ngers passing around the bar both the bar and fingers are held in proper position Without the necessity of being fastened together by either bolts or rivets. A portion of the bar, being above the plane of the knife, serves as a trip for butts of the grain when it is being reeled upon the plat form.

By this method I secure a light and strong nger-bar.

I claim- The combination of the tubular finger-bar, the longitudinal groove therein, the iin ger embracing the tubular bar, the projection on the finger interlocking with the groove in the bar, and the back-rest or brace, to which the tinger is secured at its rear end, these parts being constructed and operating substantially as set forth.

RUFUS DUTTON.

Witnesses:

WM. I. FITCH, JAMES S. FITCH. e 

